Can you see what it is these children are looking at on the shore?
... I couldn't tell either ... so, being curious to know what the crowd was all about, I pulled over and walked down with my 2 girls on our way home from school to investigate - and look what we found:
Do you see the beautiful black eyes of a harbor seal looking back at you?! He had been sunning himself on the rocky beach and when a crowd started to gather, so he wasn't quite sure whether he wanted to stick around. He waddled down to the water line and then decided to turn around and come back up onto the warm rocks for another try ...
But when some older kids started to get too close taking cell phone pics (that's their shadows across him, they are immediately to the left of the photo's edge), he decided he wasn't really excited about his celebrity status and with that, his nap time in the sun was all over. Pretty cool, I must say ... his slow and gentle way was very heartwarming to watch and it's not every day we get to see a harbor seal on the way home from school ... pretty cool indeed!
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